a pronoun such as it used as the subject of a clause involving weather, distance, or time

(grammar, of a verb) Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

(grammar, uncountable) Ellipsis of subjunctive mood. / (countable) A form in the subjunctive mood.

(grammar) a clause that is the subject of a sentence

Likely to be affected by or to experience something. / Conditional upon something; used with to. / Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

(grammar) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.

(transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.

(transitive, intransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state. / (transitive, archaic) To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.

(chemistry) A product obtained by sublimation.

Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, not upon observation or reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.